공시 • May 09
Nidec Corporation (TSE:6594) cancelled the acquisition of Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. (TSE:6135) from a group of shareholders.
Nidec Corporation (TSE:6594) proposed to acquire Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. (TSE:6135) from a group of shareholders for approximately ¥260 billion on December 26, 2024. Nidec Corporation (TSE:6594) entered into a letter of intent to acquire Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. (TSE:6135) from a group of shareholders on December 27, 2024.
As of December 27, 2024, Nidec will submit to Makino Milling a letter of intent. The Tender Offer is scheduled to commence on April 4, 2025.
The transaction is subject to approval by regulatory board / committee, approval of offer by acquirer shareholders, approval of offer by acquirer board and subject to antitrust regulations. The Board of Directors of Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. formed a special committee for the transaction. As of January 22, 2025, the waiting period for the application for approval under the U.S. competition law has expired. As of January 31, 2025, the Special Committee has, through letters to Nidec dated January 15, 2025 and January 22 2025, requested (i) the commencement date of the Tender Offer to be postponed to May 9, 2025, (ii) the lower limit on the planned number of shares to be purchased in the Tender Offer be raised to two-thirds or more of the total voting rights of the Company’s shares, and (iii) to refrain from actions and statements that discourage potential acquiring parties or others considering an alliance with the Company from submitting competing proposals. While the Company understands that Nidec responded with a rejection of each of the requests above, after thorough examination of the reasons for such rejection, the Company would like to, once again today from the Company’s board of directors, request for items (i) through (iii) to Nidec’s board of directors, including independent and external directors. The Company hereby announces that a “Request from Our Board of Directors to Your Board of Directors” has been sent. The transaction obtained U.S. antitrust clearance on January 22, 2025 and Japanese antitrust clearance on February 12, 2025. As of February 27, 2025, Nidec obtained approval an unconditional approval under Italian Legislative Decree No. 21/2012 (Golden Power Law) (Foreign Investment Regulations). On March 11, 2025, German Foreign Trade Act Enforcement Order (Foreign Investment Restrictions) has approved the transaction. On March 17, 2025, Spanish Foreign Investment Law (Foreign Investment Restrictions) has approved the transaction. As of March 18, 2025, the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade pursuant to the Czech Foreign Investment Screening Act (Foreign Investment Restrictions) approved the transaction on March 18, 2025. As of March 21, 2025, the Austrian Cartel Act (Competition Law) from the Austrian Federal Competition Authority and the Federal Cartel Prosecutor for the approvals necessary for the transaction was obtained. As of March 24, 2025, Nidec Corporation has obtained from the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic its confirmation under the Slovakia Foreign Trade Control Act (Foreign Investment Regulations) that no risk of negative impact of the foreign investment has been identified – one of the permits and approvals for this case required for a series of transactions for the purpose of making Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. (listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.’s Prime Market) a wholly owned subsidiary of Nidec. As of March 24, 2025, the Company received the document titled “Statement by JAM with respect to the Tender Offer for Shares of Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. by Nidec Corporation” from the Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery, and Manufacturing Workers. Although the Company has neither requested nor encouraged JAM or the Company’s labor union for the JAM Statement or otherwise with respect to the Proposal, the Company Union has informed the Company that its position is aligned with that of the JAM Statement. As of March 28, 2025, Nidec Corporation has obtained from the Turkish Competition Authority its approval under the Communiqué No. 2010/4 on the Mergers and Acquisitions Subject to the Approval of the Competition Board (Turkish Competition Law). As of April 3, 2025, The Company hereby announces that, because 60 business days have passed since December 27, 2024 on which the Company received the Letter of Intentin relation to the Proposal, the period for providing necessary information has expired and the evaluation period by the board of directors has commenced. Nidec Corporation will starting tomorrow commence a tender offer for shares of Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. The Board of Directors meeting held on April 3, 2025, the Tender Offeror resolved to commence the Tender Offer on April 4, 2025. As of April 3, 2025, the Tender Offeror confirmed that all required procedures under the competition laws (Japan, the United States, China, Austria, and Turkey) and foreign investment regulations (the laws (Japan, the United States, China, Austria, and Turkey) and foreign investment regulations (the United United States, Germany, France, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, and the Czech Republic) had been completed, States, Germany, France, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, and the Czech Republic) had been completed, with the exception of the Chinese competition law procedure. Although the pre with the exception of the Chinese competition law procedure. As of April 10, 2025, Makino Milling asked all shareholders no to apply for NIDEK takeover bid and if already applied asked promptly to cancel application. The transaction is expected to close on May 21, 2025. As of May 8, 2025, at the Board of Directors meeting, it was determined that if an allotment of share options without contribution is implemented in accordance with the response policy to the Tender Offer, there is a possibility of causing damage to the Company, and maintaining the Tender Offer would be significantly economically unreasonable. Therefore, the Company decided to withdraw the Tender Offer effective May 9, 2025.
TMI Associates acted as legal advisor for Nidec Corporation. Mita Securities is acting as the tender offer agent and Monex Securities, Inc. is acting as the sub-agent for the tender offer. Ken Lebrun, Mary K. Marks, Gregory S. Morrison and Paul D. Marquardt of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Freshfields LLP acted as the legal advisors to Nidec.
Nidec Corporation (TSE:6594) cancelled the acquisition of Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. (TSE:6135) from a group of shareholders on May 9, 2025.